Talking about it actually is a big one — it’s like your horrible ex-girlfriend from 20 years ago who is still looking for closure – “I just want to be sure, we are really both ok with this break up?” It’s not that we can’t ever address those greenhouse gases, we just need to talk and talk and talk and maybe wait for the future when technology is better and human ingenuity has kicked in.

Maybe this is a good argument … people are just hopeless slackers that have never been able to accomplish anything, right? I mean, look at stuffed-crust pizza, Slankets and Honey Boo-Boo– only a truly lazy species would invent that combination.

In the spirit of the New Year, I thought we could travel in time to the futuristic society the climate deniers speak of. A world that would have the technological wherewithal, the human ingenuity and political will to tackle major issues like climate change.

It’s a shame though that human ingenuity is so lacking. We just aren’t resourceful and never have been. We lack the technology, political will and ability to compromise. Maybe deniers are right, humans are doomed.

Happy New Year.

Minda Berbeco has a PhD in Biology from Tufts University and is the Policy & Programs Director at the National Center for Science Education. She wants to thank her friends for the long list of human innovations that helped her write this blog, including: magnetic induction, cotton gin, vinyl, indoor plumbing, printing press, Doritos, cordage, corrective lenses and internet, internet, internet. Oh and a couple other things that aren’t appropriate to put on this blog….but apparently are quite common on the rest of the internet. Also, if you read the whole blog post without clicking on a link, please do so, otherwise you might think she was serious about the whole people-being-slackers thing.

About Minda Berbeco

Minda received her PhD in Biology from Tufts University in 2011 studying climate change impacts on forest systems. She is now a Programs and Policy Director at the National Center for Science Education and a Visiting Scholar at the UC Museum of Paleontology.